Chapter 5
Calm
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01.What Everybody Really Wants
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02.Simplicity & Anxiety
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03.A Way Through Panic Attacks
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04.Self-Hatred & Anxiety
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05.How to Stop Being Scared All the Time
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06.The Question We Should Ask Ourselves When Anxious
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07.On Anxiety
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08.The True Cause of Dread and Anxiety
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09.On Being Scared All the Time
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10.The Importance of Having A Breakdown
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11.On Asking for Help
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12.Preparing for Disaster
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13.The Normality of Anxiety Attacks
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14.On Panic Attacks
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15.The Hard Work of Being 'Lazy'
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16.Taking It One Day at a Time
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17.Expectations - and the 80/20 Rule
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18.Spirituality for People who Hate Spirituality
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19.How to Spill A Drink Down One’s Front - and Survive
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20.How To Stop Worrying Whether or Not They Like You
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21.On Soothing
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22.What Is Wrong with Modern Times - and How to Regain Wisdom
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23.The Disaster of Anthropocentrism - and the Promise of the Transcendent
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24.On Needing to Find Something to Worry About
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25.How We Are Easily, Too Easily, 'Triggered'
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26.Hypervigilance
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27.If The Worst Came to the Worst...
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28.The Wonders of an Ordinary Life
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29.In Praise of the Quiet Life
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30.The Pursuit of Calm
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31.Insomnia and Philosophy
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32.No One Knows
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33.On Trying to Control the Future
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34.There is No Happily Ever After
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35.The Catastrophe You Fear Will Happen has Already Happened
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36.There is Always a Plan B
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37.The Consolations of History
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38.The Lessons of Nature
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39.What Others Think of You - and The Fall of Icarus
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40.On the Sublime
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41.Gratitude for the Small Things
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42.Why ‘Earthrise’ Matters
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43.On Flowers
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44.The Valuable Idea Behind the Concept of the Day of Judgement
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45.The Wisdom of Animals
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46.A Few Things Still to Be Grateful For
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47.The Lottery of Life
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48.Untranslatable Words
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49.The Wisdom of Rocks: Gongshi
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50.Wu Wei – Doing Nothing 無爲
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51.The Faulty Walnut
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52.Perspectives on Insomnia
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53.On the Wisdom of Space
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54.Memento Mori
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55.On the Wisdom of Cows
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56.On Calming Places
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57.Why Small Pleasures Are a Big Deal
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58.The Consolations of a Bath
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59.The Importance of Staring out the Window
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60.On Sunshine
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61.Clouds, Trees, Streams